Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prussian immigrants, Charley was brought up in Virginia City, Nev., where his father ran a dry-goods store. It was a brilliant family. His sister Miriam was a successful novelist. His brother Albert became one of the world's great physicists, whose measurements of the speed of light won him the Nobel Prize in 1907, and helped Einstein develop the theory of relativity. Albert once candidly remarked that Charley was the most brilliant of them...
...Leave." The Lutheran mission church at Hsuchang had originally been a stable. When Chen Yi's troops took Hsuchang for awhile last month they turned it back into a stable. "Instead of pews," said 30-year-old Pastor Anders B. Hansen last week, "there were stalls. . . . Light poured in through a mortar hole in the ceiling, and horses stirred in the stalls. ... It looked like the Christmas scene turned upside down...
...Hildegarde, the "French" chanteuse from Milwaukee. He has been close to his subjects, even liked to answer his own telephone. (Since his number was similar to a popular theater's, Stockholmers often inadvertently asked their King for two on the aisle.) He affably hands callers lighted matches for their cigarettes; but once when a Swedish politician, now dead, stuck a cigar in his mouth, expecting the King to light it for. him, Gustaf just let the match drop on the floor...
...attack with the Panzerfaust (a German-type bazooka) and Rumanian mines. Three of Dimitri's friends from Lamia tried to run away from the guerrilla band. "They were caught," said Dimitri, "and tied with ropes and the oldtimers came and kicked them to death before us in the light of the moon...
...Russia. She had a false leg fashioned from the polished thighbone of a young boy. She lived in a house that hopped on chicken-footed stilts, around which was an iron fence ornamented with skulls. After dark, the eye sockets of the skulls glowed with fire to light her way. Her chariot was a mortar, which she pushed with a pestle, using her besom to erase her singular track. Innocent children were her favorite fare, but once a girl child, who might have been her dinner, foiled her with bread. Fleeing from Baba-Yaga, this miraculous child strewed the forest...